Measuring people's performance for selection purposes and suggest how these might be overcome.

When measuring people's performance for the purpose of selection there are a number of key issues involved. The first section of this essay will explain these issues before explaining how they can be overcome in the second section. The final part of this essay will deal with the advantages and disadvantages of using the interview method as a selection tool, before concluding the main points. Human resource selection is a process that requires the measurement …

…measured must be accurate to the job and a variety of tools should be used that ensure the predictive, content and construct validity of the selection. The final point of the essay is that no matter what steps are taken to ensure the reliability and validity of the selection it is impossible to perfectly predict how an applicant will actually behave in the job and any selection that is made can only be an estimation.